United States Senate Special Committee on Aging
Hearings

COMMITTEE ON AGING FORUM: Transforming Health Care Systems for the 21st Century: Issues and Opportunities for Improving Health Care for The Chronically Ill

May 13, 1997

Meeting the needs of a growing chronically-ill population in the United States will place tremendous strain on our current health care financing systems. While important actions were taken by Congress in 1997, as part of the Balanced Budget Agreement, to address the solvency of the Medicare program, long-term solvency cannot be achieved without taking additional steps to transform the way we deliver and finance care for the chronically ill. The five participants in this forum will outline a policy framework for identifying the problems within our current system, as well as highlight innovative solutions. Four issues will drive this discussion: demographics, financing, structure of delivery systems and regulation.

Date: May 13, 1997
Time: 9:30 am
Room: 902 Hart

Opening Remarks

  1. Senator Charles Grassley, Chairman, Iowa

  2. Andrea S. Gerstenberger, Sc.D., Senior Program Officer, California HealthCare Foundation, Oakland, CA (written statement not available)


Policy Perspective:

  • Richard Bringewatt, President and CEO, National Chronic Care Consortium, Bloomington, MN

Consumer Perspective:

  • Mryl Weinberg, President, National Health Council, Washington, DC

Clinical Perspective:

  • Susan Denman, M.D., Vice President for Medical Affairs, Philadelphia Geriatric Center & Temple University Health System, Philadelphia, PA

Financial Perspective:
Programmatic Perspective:

  • Mark Meiners, Ph.D., Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Medicare/Medicaid Integration Program; College Park, MD


Forum Publications

  • Committee on Aging Print: 105-23